King & Conqueror begins where it ends: with the Battle of Hastings in 1066. It’s a clash of armies led by two men, each determined to rule England and control the course of history – but just how ...

Some folks mis-remember the story of old King Canute. We’ve heard the (surely apocryphal) tale told of Canute The Great ordering the ocean’s waves to stop, and they, of course, didn’t obey his ...

Lecturer in Medieval History, School of Advanced Study, University of London On June 8 1023, 1,001 years ago, King Cnut took a bath. In itself this was not particularly remarkable. Contrary to the ...

Sveinsson Knut, Canute the Great, King of England from 1016, King of Denmark from 1018 and King of Norway from 1030 until he died in 1035, was perhaps the most successful and effective of the early ...

The King’s visit to the Vatican was, of course, terrifically moving, but the great question is, was it actually the first ...

It took Boris Johnson 1,066 days, Rishi Sunak 603 days, but the grand prize goes to Sir Keir Starmer, who in a record smashing 401 days - welcomed his first 50,000 asylum seekers across the English ...

I have only one quibble with Allysia Finley’s otherwise excellent assessment of California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara (“How the Left Turned California Into a Paradise Lost,” Life Science, Jan ...